Neighbours kids playing in the street

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OK I know it's the school hols and kids need fresh air and all that. But they have a back garden that they could play in. But oh no, every afternoon without fail they are kicking a football round in the BLOODY STREET in front of my house. It's all I can hear for hours every afternoon and am I right in thinking they shouldn't be out in the street, they should be in their gardens? It's giving me the rage. Oh and the kid has had CV apparently but was out before his isolation period was up.

We have a back garden. We played cars on the drive this morning just for a change of scene. Are they playing with any other kids? Still observing the guidelines? Then I would let them get on with it.

If it’s driving you mad imagine you are the kids parents trying to WFH. I think you should try and be understanding.

Erm I'm trying to WFH too...

Put some ear plugs in and carry on with your work.
Don't be such a misery guts.

As long as they're all from the same house they're perfectly entitled. They're kids. They play.

My neighbours have young children. Parents working from home. The kids are out in the street playing during the day even though they have a garden.
I used to do the same as a kid, so did my kids. It's normal- and they stay as a family no mixing with others.
Though if they did it still wouldn't be any business / concern of mine.

The children on our road have been playing out on their front drives - one of the families have made a huge hop scotch on their drive and the children on the road are taking it in turn to play on it (one house at a time) and the boy next door but one has managed to get the stabilisers off his bike now as he's been practising on the road now there are no cars, it's lovely.

So I understood the guidelines to mean that you stay in your home (or garden) unless you're out exercising, and that kicking a ball around in the road does not constitute exercising. They're also on and off their next door neighbour's driveway but I guess that's her issue as to whether she's bothered. I have kids myself but I wouldn't want them bothering others, and I wouldn't want them somewhere they shouldn't be at the moment.

YANBU at all OP. They have a garden and playing out in the street for that long is clearly against regulations. It really pisses me off that people just don’t think this applies to them! It’s ignorant and selfish.

Oh for goodness sake let the poor kids be. They need to do something to keep them going and cannot be expected to watch tv or play quietly all day!
I have to work from home and have children but have to adjust to accommodate them as well.
Be a bit more understanding, it’s not as though they are playing with others.

surely so long as they stay 2m apart from anyone not in their household it's fine?? playing out in the garden can be in addition to your daily exercise anyway. So,e.g. if my kids play in the back garden in the morning, we can still all go for a walk as well in the afternoon.
I appreciate it may be annoying noise-wise, but I can't see that it's a risk re. infection, if they are doing social distancing.

Yanbu at all. If they were in their own front garden it would be irritating but allowable but they shouldn’t be out in the road. It does not count as their exercise under the guidelines.

kintikki no you didn’t ‘do the same as a kid’ because unless you are 110 years old you did not play in the street during a pandemic when people have been instructed to stay on their own property.

Football isn't exercising?

Ok the next time their ball lands in my garden (which it does sometimes) I will be picking it up (with gloves on) and putting it in my bin.

Can't believe there's only one person who agrees that this isn't within the current guidelines. Think I'll send my 16 yo out to meet her mates then....(obvs not gonna really)

butterflies they aren’t playing in the garden though. They are on a public street.

toolittletoolate the rules don’t include team sports (presumably to discourage meet ups/ people meeting at parks to play etc)

chocolate you’ve just been unlucky on this thread. On most others people understand that this isn’t some big extra holiday for kids to have fun outside in public areas.
And you are correct- it’s totally outside all guidelines.

I was going for my daily walk yesterday and there were about 5 kids playing across the path. It made it really hard to pass them and keep a safe distance

This is why they can't be allowed out to run around unsupervised.

absolutely YANBU

if they were jogging round the block, absolutely fine.

Claiming a public area as their own to play football for hours is completely against the current guidelines. Their idiotic parents are the ones who will be responsible for stricter rules, and the complete ban of anything.

You can report them, and hopefully a fine should bring them back to reason.
Police around here HAS been issuing fines for everybody behaving like that. So it does happen, you just need to make them aware.

Can't believe there's only one person who agrees that this isn't within the current guidelines.

Police locally is giving out fines for such examples, so you are definitively not the only one!

Thanks @smileyaxolotl1, two people agreeing with me then!

FWIW these were the same people who were burning crap in their garden two days running the other week, so I'm already irritated with them.

YY mamabear

2 kids from the same home playing near their home but keeping safe from others really really wouldn’t bother me. I don’t understand why it does you?

Football is very much exercise.

I do wonder whether some of the people saying YABU have misread the thread and think you are complaining about them playing in their front gardens?

It's not allowed at the moment. They are allowed one outing if exercise a day, so a walk, bike ride or scooter ride. They arent allowed to just be out on the street